Hello All, I am new to researching the Ludington's and have seen some of your notes dating back to 2000.! My connection is through Syrena Ludington. She married Zebulon Washburn. They are my gggg grand parents. He is what I know. Zebulon is the son of Samuel Washburn and Phebe Baker both buried Mt. Carmel Baptist Cemetery, Carmel New York. He was born in 1805. Syrena is the daughter of Joseph Ludington and Susan ? (Ferris or Salmon) She was born in 1814 and died March 5 06. The resided in Beekman. Both are buried at Pawling Cemetery RT 22 Pawling NY. (This is cared for by some local persons) Joseph was born in 1779 and Died Jan. 12th 1850. (I have a photo of his stone) He is buried at Pawling Cemetery near Syrena and Zebulon as well as other Washburn's and Ludington's. He married Susan and had 10 Children. He appears on the 1820-1840 Census for Pawling (note in 1820 Comfort J.R. is there as well) in 1850 Susan appears in his place. In 1880 Susan is with her son William. Ron Ludington kindly shared his decedent research with me. I am looking for from who he descends. Any one with information on Joseph please contact me. I have photos of the graves of William and Jane Nickerson, George B. and Joseph son of William and Jane. A little history. My name is Mary Inoue and I was born in raised in NY. 7 years ago I moved to AZ. Then I started working on my mothers family tree. I never had to leave the house. Everything I needed to find her family was right on the computer or ordered cheaply enough through the mail from the NYC Archives. While I breezed through that I decided to start my Fathers. The Washburn's have been a interesting group to research. There is quite a lot of information available. Though other researchers have done work on them I started from scratch. This involved spending a month in NY last summer. I love solving puzzles. I am glad I did. I uncovered a good deal of overlooked information. However we still can not link up who is the Father of A Zebulon born 1747. So I moved down the family tree. That is how I come about trying to find Joseph's family. Thanks so much and have a great day. Mary